IND U19 vs Eng U19 2nd Youth ODI:
IND U19 vs Eng U19 2nd Youth ODI:
IND U19 vs Eng U19 2nd Youth ODI: In the second Youth ODI match played between India Under-19 and England Under-19 teams, England defeated India by 1 wicket after a thrilling match. Vaibhav Suryavanshi played a good innings of 45 runs for India, but could not win the team. At the same time, Rocky Flintoff, son of former England cricketer Andrew Flintoff, played an important innings of 39 runs in this match.
India targets 291 runs to England
Batting first, the Indian team gave England a target of 291 runs. The beginning was nothing special, as captain Ayush Mhatre was dismissed without scoring any runs. After this, Vaibhav Suryavanshi, Vihaan Malhotra, Kanishka Chauhan and Rahul Kumar scored good runs, but no half -century could be completed. Vaibhav scored 45, Vihaan 49, Kanishka 45 and Rahul 47 runs. India scored 290 runs in 49 overs. M French took 4 wickets for England, while Jack Home and Alex Green took 3-3 wickets.
England won a thrilling 1 wicket in the final over
England’s innings also slowed down in the beginning. Ben Drkins was dismissed early after scoring 7 runs. Isak Mohammed scored 11 and Ben Mess 27 runs. Rocky Flintoff took over the innings by scoring 39 runs in 68 balls. The biggest innings was played by Thomas Rayu, who scored 131 runs in 89 balls. He was dismissed in the 40th over, then England still needed 60 runs to win.
The match remained exciting till the last over. England needed 12 runs in the last two overs, while India had to take only 1 wicket. French and Marghan scored 5 runs in the 49th over. In the three balls starting the final over, England won 7 runs. India’s luck did not support and the last wicket could not fall. For India, Ambarish took the most 4 wickets, while Henil Patel and Yudhjit Guha took 2–2 wickets. In this way England defeated India in this exciting match.
